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“Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.”

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Book:Sight-readings: American Fictions

Source: Sight-readings: American Fictions

“What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.”

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Author:John Sculley

“It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.”

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Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'”

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Author:Albert Brooks

“I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.”

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Author:Philip Glass

“Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.”

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Author:Francisco Costa

“I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.”

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Author:Iris Apfel

“If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.”

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Author:Wes Anderson

“Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.”

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Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.”

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Author:China Mieville

“Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.”

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Author:Christian Boltanski

“I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines.”

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Author:Paul Brown

“I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.”

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Author:Jonathan Glazer

“To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.”

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Author:DJ Quik

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.”

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Author:Anthony Davis

“I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.”

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Author:Gemma Arterton

“I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.”

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Author:Roopal Patel

“When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.”

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Author:Mahan Esfahani

“I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart.”

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Author:Ariana Madix

“I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.”

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Author:Donna Karan

“I think Calvin [Klein] is a minimalist.”

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Author:Donna Karan

“I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.”

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Author:Sebastian Clovis

“I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.”

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Author:Richard McGuire

“I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.”

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Author:Richard McGuire

“I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.”

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Author:Elaine Equi

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.”

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Author:Bob Newhart

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

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Book:Carnets: 1935-1942

Source: Carnets: 1935-1942

“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

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Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.”

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Author:Jean Reno

“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Life is balance of holding on and letting go.”

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Author:Rumi

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

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Author:Confucius

“It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.”

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Author:David Foster

“I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.”

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Author:Aidan Quinn

“'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.”

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Author:Chris Cornell

“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.”

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Author:Francis Jourdain

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

“The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.”

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Author:Duane Elgin

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